Ingredients
- 1½ ozvanilla vodka
- 1½ ozbutterscotch schnapps
- 🍋Caramel or butterscotch sauce drizzled inside the glass.(garnish)
🔧 Tools
Instructions
- Drizzle butterscotch or caramel sauce around the inside of a chilled martini glass.
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the vanilla vodka and butterscotch schnapps.
- Shake vigorously for 10 to 15 seconds until well chilled.
- Strain into the prepared martini glass.
- Garnish with a butterscotch candy or serve as is.
📜 History
The Butterscotch Martini is a dessert cocktail that emerged in American bars during the 1990s as flavored vodkas and schnapps became widely available. Bartenders seeking sweet post-dinner cocktail alternatives found the pairing of vanilla vodka and butterscotch schnapps to be a natural combination, delivering candy-bar richness in a spirit-forward format. The name follows the loose convention, established in the 1990s, of calling any chilled, strained cocktail served in a coupe or martini glass a martini. Some variations add a small measure of heavy cream or Irish cream for additional richness, though the two-ingredient shaken version remains the most widely documented form.
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